Vietnamese, Russian businesses and pressmen meet in Moscow

The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia
hosted a meeting between Vietnamese and Russian business circles and
pressmen on Jan. 25 on the occasion of the traditional New Year.

Addressing
the function, Ambassador Bui Dinh Dinh reviewed important events in
Vietnam-Russia bilateral relations in 2010, including the Russia visit
by former Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and State President
Nguyen Minh Triet; President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Vietnam, the
celebration of 60 years of Vietnam-Russia diplomatic ties and the second
Russia-ASEAN Summit in Hanoi.

The activities have helped
consolidated traditional ties between the two countries, lifting the
strategic partnership to a new height, the ambassador said.

In
2010, five groups of Russian reporters from Russian news agency TASS,
Russia Today newspaper and Voice of Russia came to Vietnam to cover
information on important events, he said.

The ambassador
also affirmed contributions made by Russian and Vietnamese
businesspeople and enterprises to the development of bilateral economic
cooperation.

Director of the International Cooperation
Department of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sergey
Vasiliev, Deputy Director of the Asia Department under the Russian
Foreign Ministry Igor Khovaev and representative of the Rosatom State
Nuclear Energy Cooperation spoke highly of the long-lasting relations
and strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia.

They also mentioned effective cooperation between the two enterprises
in economic areas, especially in oil and gas exploration and atomic
energy as well as contributions of mass media in popularising
information on events which took place in Russia and Vietnam.

The
same day, the Vietnamese embassy in Egypt held a get-together for
the Vietnamese community on the occasion of the Lunar New Year./.